San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-09-13
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

The Wheeling incident produces
fruit. II IL gives stone to the in
suffer instead of bread let the insulter
beware and be thereby admonished.
The refinement of iron can go no
farther than in the proposed erection OF
monument to Brunski, the man who
served as Cleveland's substitute during
the war.
HAS the Galveston News got Briggs
on the brain or has Briggs seized the
Galveston News where the capillary
covering Is unusually ourtailed?
REV. SAM SNAIL is authority for the
statement that a close following OF
the demOcIa attic party led him within
half a mile OF he'll. SANS experience is
by no means unique.
THE cholera Is not decreasing Its raw
ages in Italy Notwithstanding former
favorable reports. Yesterdays mortal
ity list Is the greatest yet recorded and
seems to indicate that the disease Is
getting more firmly seated.
BARNEY GIBBS goes to Tennessee to
buck prohibition. 1t was the glory OF
i-prOhibitiOnists of Texas that no
impOrtatiOns were made in the way of
orators. Tennessee would do well TO
follow this healthy example. Anli-prO-
hibitiOH will do best fighting its own
battles on its own soil.
ARRANGEMENTS are well nigh cOmplet-
ed at Philadelphia for the celebration of
the centennial. The music opens on
Thursday and already the city is swarm
ing with guests. The procession will
call 1900 into line, it is estimated, and
the pageant will be beyond all fOrme T
spectacles.
The sewers of boom seed In southern
California have reaped an occasional
harvest. Those who have gone there
for profit outside OF this work of sowing
bOOm-seed have found mighty poor pick
ing. The southern California fever has
not been profitable one to nineteen
men out OF twenty who haYe taken it.
The Harpers are doing yoemans work
in boosting Cleveland for the presi-
dency. All pretenCe of civil service re-
form is dead but Harpers have the sub
stance In Cleveland and care nothing for
the mere shadow OF a civil service re-
form which was the Ostensible reason of
their first denial of republican party
allegiance.
O'BRIEN WAS rendered the compliment
OF very heavy military guard and the
streets were lined with British troops
while the unarmed freshman was being
taken to jail. The British lion kept his
tsil between his legs until the defence
less lrishman was behind the bars.
There was something In O'Briea's eve
that cowed the brute as he passed by.
The action of Balfour's hired minions
in dispensing peaGable assemblies of
lrishmen 10 made the occasion OF severe
language on the floor of the commons
1t reminds one Of the days Of the Scotch
OOvenanters and the dispersion OF the
cOnventioles by armed troopers who
rode rOugh-shOd over women and chill
dren. 1t would seem as though the cup
Of poor Irelaud's misery was nearly
full.
The International Prison congress is
In session at Toronto, Canada. MANY
OF the American states are represented,
but Texas Is not among the number. 1t
is high time she was. The successor TO
the immortal 10th should give this state
board OF charities and reform and
face our philanthropists toward pro-
gress.
The democratic governor of Callfor-
MIA, Washington Bartlett, is dead and
the republican lieutensnt governor, X
W. Waterman, administers the affairs OF
his office. A very unusual incident.
This, however, is but an augury OF the
manner In which democratic mantles
will fall upon republican shoulders in
1888.
HERR JOHANN MOST did not most get
there. He filed his declaration of inten-
tiOns as an American citizen, or at least
attempted to, and the clerk OF the Supe-
rior court refused to accept his declara-
tion. Most would not reply satisfac-
torily to some OF the questions pro-
pounded. He says he will appeal to the
courts. Pesling his hide instead OF ap.
pealing his case would be q better REIN
edy. Herr Most should be shipped back
to Europe. America Is too young for
him.
ROB. LINCOLN has shown his ingram
| good sense In the attitude he assumes in
relation to the presidential nomination,
He is not in the field as dark horse,
He does not in any sense underrate the
office, Its honOrs or his own powers, He
does place just valuation upon it's re-.
| sponsibilities, its great personal incon.
| veniences, the sacrifices IL requires, the
worry and wear Of the machine, and does
not propose to cast himself under the
wheels Of the political deity as a de.
voice. II the American people call up-
on him to assume this high office unbid.
| den Of airy machine mRnipulAtiOns he
| will be found as was his illustrious
father, the martyr president, ready ia
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